What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God is not out of breath because he has blown one tempest and swallowed a Navy: Our God has not burnt out his eyes because he has looked upon a Train of Powder."

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.